Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | yesterday
P ump the stomach of your average Seattleite and you'd probably find the swill contains 10 percent local/organic/sustainable produce, 40 percent mood-altering liquids, and 20 percent cheese and tomato sauce. In Ballard, the pizza density has become comical. Let m...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
PRESIDENT NICOLAS Sarkozy's ruling UMP yesterday reacted with a good-cop-bad-cop routine to growing outrage over the brutal arrest and detention of a former director of Libération newspaper.
CNN (Free subscription) | yesterday
... ever even have been an issue? Would it have ever prompted a comment? Probably not. We all know the assumption tends to be that with a man, there is almost always a wife in the wings managing those family concerns.2. As a woman, hearing this, it is hard not to wonder if we are counted out for certain jobs, certain opportunities, because we do have a family or because we are in our child-bearing...
French Politics (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Patrick Devedjian appears to be preparing his exit from the UMP's top post. His mission has been accomplished, he says. It might be more accurate to say that, having been cut off at the knees and stabbed in the back, he is now saving face. Xavier Bertrand, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, and Christian Estrosi have collectively surrounded Devedjian for months, second-guessing and overruling him when
Charles Bremner (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The behaviour of the judge and police stirred anger from most quarters over the weekend, including from President Sarkozy's UMP party. But today, Rachida Dati, the Justice Minister, said the police were carrying out standard procedure because de Filippis had ignored a summons to come to the judge's office. As Laurent Joffrin, the Libération Editor, says today, the point is not that a journalist was...
Gadgets (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Portable speakers for MP3 players are two a penny, but not many are not far off a penny in size: Landport’s Cubes are though. They’re just an inch cube, but fit in stereo speakers, 3.5-mm jack plug, rechargeable batteries and a mini-USB port. They’ll run for 4-5 hours on a charge, too. Just don’t go [...]
Gadgets (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Black Friday shopping is not something you jump into without a plan. If you are shopping or getting ready to shop, make sure you have all the info you need by first checking out our Black Friday survival guide, as well as the supplementary Black Friday helpers: • Best of Black Friday Deals Complete...
Gadgets (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Today is Black Friday, a day dedicated to our basest and most pathetic inclinations. The day after giving thanks for all that we have, we turn around and jump through horrible hoops to accumulate more at the insistence of sleazy, desperate retailers. It’s a nice summation of everything...
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Christian Vanneste is a French MPThe French Court of Appeal has overturned a previous court judgement against parliamentarian Christian Vanneste.In 2006 Vanneste, an MP for President Sarkozy's UMP party, was convicted of homophobic speech and fined under anti-discrimination laws after stating that among other things "homosexuality was inferior to heterosexuality, and could be dangerous for humanity."The...
